Victoria Myers

Victoria has family from Panama and Barbados who were artisanal wood carvers and hopes to visit their hometown one day. She enjoys focusing her energy and time on academic and communal activities such as robotics club, track and field, and camp counseling at the American Diabetes Association summer camp and Girl Scouts. She is proud of being elected as the National Hispanic Institute’s Youth Legislative Session Speaker of the House and a member of the secretariat for Global Elementary Model United Nations. She also placed first in her district for the 400-meter dash in track and field.

Victoria is passionate about improving environmental health and is considering becoming involved in politics in the future. Currently, she is focused on a project she launched to clean and beautify a slave cemetery in her local community. It’s important to her to preserve that history and honor lives lived and lost during a dark time in American history. Victoria is, “excited to be a Bezos scholar to have the opportunity to collaborate with other peers my age and execute projects that will benefit our local and global communities.”